AMANPOUR: Of course, “Lock her up” was a feature of the 2016 Trump campaign. Do you, in retrospect, wish that people like yourself, the head of the FBI, I mean, the people in charge of law and order – had shut down that language? That it was dangerous potentially, that it could have created violence, that it’s kind of hate speech? Should that have been allowed?

Now, credit where credit is due, even this kind of egregious assault on the First Amendment was too much for the slimy former FBI Director.

Comey told her in no uncertain terms “that’s not a role for government to play.”

I wonder if Christiane considers the unaccountable lies CNN has peddled for the last two-plus years are a form of enslavement.

I’m guessing no.

We journalists will continue to wage this battle.

“…by having our enemies jailed for chanting things like ‘Lock Her Up.'”

The free press must not be demonized.

But we knuckle-dragging, “Lock Her Up”-chanting Trump supporters?

Hell, we can be demonized all the live-long day.

What Christiane fails to grasp is that President Trump has never demonized the Free Press. Instead, he reserves his attacks for the lying, duplicitous, agenda-driven hacks peddling fake news while trying to ruin the lives of private citizens.

I did a quick search of Christiane’s Twitter feed and discovered that she used to feel very differently about an American’s right to free speech.

When, in 2012, the Florida Marlins suspended Manager Ozzie Guillen for five games after he praised Fidel Castro, Amanpour was none too happy about it.

I just came back from Cuba where freedom of speech is scarce. But what about freedom of speech in the U.S.? | http://t.co/kOAphwX7

It’s also the network that picks up and runs with every Media Matters-driven boycott of whatever Fox News personality has their knickers in a twist.

And, lest we forget, CNN also led the charge to drive Alex Jones off social media.

So is it at all surprising that, after working on and off at CNN for the last thirty years, Christiane Amanpour shares this desire to “shut down” speech with which she disagrees?

This kind of totalitarian impulse runs rampant among our elite betters in the corporate media.

And, to use a ubiquitous phrase, that’s why Trump won.

We’ve been ignored, insulted, scoffed at, and now are told to shut up or else.

What idiots like Christiane Amanpour don’t grasp is that doubling down on this desire to criminalize Free Speech isn’t going to end the way they hope.

Instead, it’s only going to help Trump win in 2020.

So, I guess I should say thank you, Christiane.

You might be an idiot. But, from where I’m standing, you’re of the “useful” variety.

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5 thoughts on “Christiane Amanpour is an idiot”

She used to be known as “the war whore.” She’s just one donkey in a herd of braying jackasses so blinded by their own arrogance and disregard for everything that has made this country great the truth is not in them. Never was.

Go get her, Amanpour is horrible. Have you ever noticed the very odd way she over-articulates with her mouth. Does she have a speech impediment? Or does she think talking like that is how the highbrows talk? It’s weird.